Hermann Gründler

Wilhelm Hermann Gründler (born February 16, 1897 in Langenwetzendorf , † December 17, 1973 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD ). From 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Life

The son of the master weaver Wilhelm Hermann Gründler and the Christian love Emma Gründler, nee Peter, attended elementary school and later worked as a clerk. During the Weimar Republic he worked as an editor in Langenwetzendorf.

In 1920 Gründler joined the USPD, for which he was elected in the state elections in September 1921 in the Thuringian state parliament. From 1922 he was a member of the SPD, a leading functionary of the party in Langenwetzendorf and a delegate to the SPD party congress in Magdeburg in 1929. He was a member of the Thuringian state parliament until 1933. During the state parliament session on June 19, 1931, he was assaulted by the NSDAP MP Paul Papenbroock .

After the National Socialists came to power , Gründler was briefly imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . Following his release, he took over a tobacco shop in Berlin-Lichtenberg in 1933 . At the end of 1935 he was acquitted by the Jena Higher Regional Court in proceedings against several former members of the SPD .

Gründler returned to Langenwetzendorf for a short time after the Second World War , where he participated in the re-establishment of the SPD in September 1945. He was an opponent of the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , but was brought up for discussion by the SPD in early April as potential state chairman of the Thuringian SED for the unification party conference in Gotha at the beginning of April . Finally he moved back to Berlin , first to the eastern part of the city and then to the western part of the city in the mid-1950s. He lived in Berlin-Steglitz and most recently worked in the Berlin labor administration.

Hermann Gründler married Erna Bertha Frieda Leber (1902–1988) in 1936, the daughter of a master carpenter. His wife worked as a commercial clerk for a Berlin newspaper.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 298-299 .

Web links

• Hermann Gründler's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)